Re: What's cooking in git.git (Nov 2018, #03; Wed, 7)

["Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Nov 07 2018, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> * ab/range-diff-no-patch (2018-11-07) 1 commit
>  - range-diff: add a --no-patch option to show a summary
>
>  "range-diff" learns the "--no-patch" option, which can be used to
>  get a high-level overview without the actual line-by-line patch
>  difference shown.
>
>  Will merge to 'next'.

Per <20181107122202.1813-1-avarab@gmail.com> it turns out this whole
thing should have been a bugfix instead, sent a v2.

> * ab/dynamic-gettext-poison (2018-11-02) 1 commit
>  - i18n: make GETTEXT_POISON a runtime option
>
>  On hold.
>  cf. <20181102163725.GY30222@szeder.dev>

Hope to sent update soon...

> * ab/push-dwim-dst (2018-10-29) 9 commits
>  - SQUASH???
>  - push doc: document the DWYM behavior pushing to unqualified <dst>
>  - push: add DWYM support for "git push refs/remotes/...:<dst>"
>  - push: test that <src> doesn't DWYM if <dst> is unqualified
>  - push: add an advice on unqualified <dst> push
>  - push: move unqualified refname error into a function
>  - push: improve the error shown on unqualified <dst> push
>  - i18n: remote.c: mark error(...) messages for translation
>  - remote.c: add braces in anticipation of a follow-up change
>
>  "git push $there $src:$dst" rejects when $dst is not a fully
>  qualified refname and not clear what the end user meant.  The
>  codepath has been taught to give a clearer error message, and also
>  guess where the push should go by taking the type of the pushed
>  object into account (e.g. a tag object would want to go under
>  refs/tags/).
>
>  The last few steps are questionable.
>  cf. <87in1lkw54.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>

...ditto...

> * ab/pack-tests-cleanup (2018-10-31) 3 commits
>   (merged to 'next' on 2018-11-03 at b4a39595bb)
>  + index-pack tests: don't leave test repo dirty at end
>  + pack-objects tests: don't leave test .git corrupt at end
>  + pack-objects test: modernize style
>
>  A couple of tests used to leave the repository in a state that is
>  deliberately corrupt, which have been corrected.
>
>  Will merge to 'master'.

Thanks!

> * nd/config-split (2018-10-29) 79 commits
>   (merged to 'next' on 2018-11-03 at a336559101)
>  + config.txt: remove config/dummy.txt
>  + config.txt: move worktree.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move web.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move versionsort.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move user.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move url.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move uploadpack.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move uploadarchive.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move transfer.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move tag.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move submodule.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move stash.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move status.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move splitIndex.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move showBranch.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move sequencer.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move sendemail-config.txt to config/
>  + config.txt: move reset.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move rerere.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move repack.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move remotes.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move remote.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move receive-config.txt to config/
>  + config.txt: move rebase-config.txt to config/
>  + config.txt: move push-config.txt to config/
>  + config.txt: move pull-config.txt to config/
>  + config.txt: move protocol.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move pretty.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move pager.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move pack.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move notes.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move mergetool.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move merge-config.txt to config/
>  + config.txt: move man.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move mailmap.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move mailinfo.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move log.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move interactive.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move instaweb.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move init.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move index.* to a separate file
>  + git-imap-send.txt: move imap.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move i18n.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move http.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move ssh.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move help.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move guitool.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move gui-config.txt to config/
>  + config.txt: move gpg.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move grep.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move gitweb.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move gitcvs-config.txt to config/
>  + config.txt: move gc.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move fsck.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move fmt-merge-msg-config.txt to config/
>  + config.txt: move format-config.txt to config/
>  + config.txt: move filter.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move fetch-config.txt to config/
>  + config.txt: move fastimport.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move difftool.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move diff-config.txt to config/
>  + config.txt: move completion.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move credential.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move commit.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move column.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move color.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move clean.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move checkout.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move browser.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move branch.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move blame.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move apply.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move am.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move alias.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move add.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move core.* to a separate file
>  + config.txt: move advice.* to a separate file
>  + Update makefile in preparation for Documentation/config/*.txt
>  + Merge branches 'bp/reset-quiet' and 'js/mingw-http-ssl' into nd/config-split
>  (this branch uses bp/reset-quiet.)
>
>  Split the overly large Documentation/config.txt file into million
>  little pieces.  This potentially allows each individual piece
>  included into the manual page of the command it affects more easily.
>
>  Will merge to 'master'.
>
>  This is a painful conversions while many other topics in flight
>  wants to add to or edit the documentation of configuration
>  variables.

Yeah the sooner this lands in master the better. I stopped deploying
internal versions of git while this is in flight. Having topics I want
to apply (based off master) + deploying next + resolving conflicts was
too painful to bother with.